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Africa world press
The African Christian Presence in the West: New Immigrant Congregations and Transnational Networks in North America and Europe
In the world today, migration makes up the greatest movement of people surpassing any other previous period in human history. In the last few decades, it has turned into a structural reality of contemporary society which according to some records...
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ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN WEST AFRICA 1990-2009
This unique volume explores the extent to which elections as a vehicle of democratization have enhanced economic performance and well-being of citizens of the sub-region.
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LEISURE IN URBAN AFRICA
In this fascinating study, an interdisciplinary team of scholars reflect on the complex conceptions, creation, and consumption of leisure in African cities from the nineteenth century to the present
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CAMEL TRACKS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SAHELIAN LITERATURES
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (February 1, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 291 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437572
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437579
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Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa
The twenty essays in this volume explore the institution of debt bondage in Africa, in which individuals were held as collateral—usually by members of the same family—in lieu of debts that had been incurred.
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PARACHUTE DROP
Norbert Zongo was Burkina Faso's most respected journalist before his politically motivated murder in 1998. As an editor of the newspaper l'Indépendent, Zongo wrote under the pen name of Henri Segbo, frequently attacking governmental crime
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FLIGHT: IN SEARCH OF VISION
Flight: In Search of Vision chronicles the evolution of Black/Africana Studies and explores its potential for spearheading contemporary efforts to confront various intellectual and social challenges.
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SILENT THUNDER: Breaking Through Cultural, Racial, and Class Barriers In Motorsports
Every once in a while, a story comes along that enrages, enlightens and inspires all at once. Silent Thunder, the highly anticipated memoir of legendary autoracing veteran Lenny Miller is one such story
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INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Institutions and Development in Africa" is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa. It contains a refreshing, rigorous and informative analysis of underdevelopment in Africa
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YIBIR OF LAS BURGABO (THE): A Somali Novel
The Yibir of Las Burgabo is the story of a Yibir family in Somalia. (Yibirs are the most ostracized and despised group in Somalia.) In this novel, after an out-of-town trip on foot, Geeddi never returns home.
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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES OF AFRICA
In Languages and Literatures of Africa, Alain Ricard presents African languages and literatures in a new perspective focusing on the dialogue between them
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Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, and Songs
Oyekan Owomoyela, the late Ryan Professor of African Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a leading scholar in the field and a foremost authority on Yoruba traditional literary forms in particular.
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WHISPERING OUT LOUD: Voices of Africana Edited by Michael T. Tillotson
This book contains a collection of articles written by Africana Studies scholars: Kaila Story, De Reef Jamison, Karanja Carrol, Dawn Elissa Fischer, Serie Mc Dougal, Justin Gammage, Marquita Gammage, and Michael Tillotson. Kaila Story examines the dire consequences of young...
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REBUILDING SOMALILAND: Issues And Possibilities
Somaliland is Africas best kept secret, according to South African academicIqbal Jhazbay. Somaliland has earned this description owing to its extraordinary achievements in the 12 years since its declaration of independence
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HIS MASTER'S VOICE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND SINGLE-PARTY POLITICS IN GUINEA UNDER SEKOU TOURE
By using the case study of Guinea, the author explores systemically (1) the nature of the single-party regime and the role of first-generation post-colonial African leadership, (2) the central role of ideology in the twin-programs of statecraft and nation-building by...
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POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STEEL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: LESSONS FROM SOUTH KOREA
This is a critical comparative analysis of the origin, nature, problems and prospects of steel development and industrialization in Nigeria and South Korea. It is well known that the Asian New Industrializing Countries (NICs)
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LAND, LITERACY AND THE STATE IN SUDANIC AFRICA
Land, Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa re-conceptualizes Sudanic Africa—“the land of the Blacks” to classical Arab geographers—to include the Ethiopian Highlands in the East.
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FROM OUR MOTHERS HEART
This collection of Bukusu folktales and proverbs provides a cultural heritage. The prologue includes a brief history and gender politics within the community. Earlier historical accounts draw heavily on oral narratives and legends
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RHYME IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: HIP HOP AND THE CREATION OF A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
As historian, cultural critic, and politician, Usher offers a visionary study of Hip Hop Culture steeped in axiological clarity.
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NIGERIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: STRATEGIES FOR POLITICAL STABILITY AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
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NIGERIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: STRATEGIES FOR POLITICAL STABILITY AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
Given the size and population of Nigeria in the African continent, political stability and peaceful coexistence among its diverse nationalities are imperative for development and democratic consolidation that could serve as a model for the region and Africa. This volume,...
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BORDERLINE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICAN FICTION
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc. (September 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 262 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213626
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213627
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARYSE CONDE: A WRITE OF HER OWN
Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own brings together for the first time a collection of essays in English about the novels of this contemporary Caribbean literary and cultural figure
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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
This new book puts together in a single cover, two earlier volumes by the authors, now revised to meet the challenges of a twenty-first century scholarship in African performance and cultural studies.
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DECISIONS IN THE SHADE: Political and Juridical Processes Among the Aromo-Borana
Due to the debate that has developed around the political significance of their Gada system of generational classes, the Oromo-Borana (a pastoral people living in Ethiopia and Kenya) have become a classic reference of comparative anthropology. In this study the...
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RICEKEEPERS: A PLAY
Rice Keepers is a full-length play in eleven scenes, with ten characters, two of whom double up, and a dancer. Set in the Nimba, a village in a Guinee Coast country, the play centers around historical events of the past, particularly...
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POLITICAL HISTORY OF ZAMBIA: FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Utilizing a post-nationalist revisionist interpretation of the political processes and political developments, both for the colonial and post-colonial periods, Professor Phiri posits that contrary to the view held by many scholars that liberalism was a lost cause in Central Africa,...
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AFRICA AND THE ACADEMY: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses On Africa
This book revisits the concepts and methodologies associated with eurocentrism in particular and hegemonic discourse in general, as these relate to African studies.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (August 1, 2002)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1592210147
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210145
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HURLING WORDS AT CONSCIOUSNESS: POEMS
By turns soothingly tender or implacably harsh, Hurling Words at Consciousness is an unflinching meditation on our globalized inequities. It is thoughtful and richly rewarding. -Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mukoma wa Ngugi is a poet of extraordinary expressive gifts....
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PEOPLE OF THE CITY
When People of the City was first published in 1954, it was immediately acclaimed as the first major novel in English by a West African to be widely read throughout the English-speaking world
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